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Pownce is the latest competitor to Twitter and is brought to you by Kevin Rose of Digg fame. If anyone has a shot at taking on Twitter it’s Kevin. With the obvious advantage of the Digg user base and Kevin’s own “internet fame” it should be a lock. But more than that, Pownce is pretty slick. They don’t bother with the SMS (yet, maybe later?) and stick with web and mac/windows clients. You can send messages, files, links and events. As with Twitter you can add or follow friends, but Pownce as the ability to create friend groups. Right now it’s invite only (pownce invites here) and, if the server response lately is any indicator, it’s getting very popular.

I suspect, and I’m just speculating, that pownce could be a back door attempt and producing the next MySpace or Facebook. With just a handful more features Pownce would be just that. It’s not far from it now.

At any rate, I like Pownce, epically the “reply” button on messages. I look forward to seeing where this thing goes.

Technorati Tags: Pownce, Digg, Kevin Rose, Twitter, Twitter Hacks

There is a little hack that Jetpacked brought into the light that makes it possible with TwitterFeed. Normally, Twitterfeed would be used to feed your blog into Twitter, but by creating a link to your Pownce accounts RSS instead of your blog, posting in one place makes it possible to post in two at the same time. You can start things off by using your OpenID to log into Twitterfeed.com, then entering your Twitter credentials, and using your Pownce feed (http://www.pownce.com/feeds/public/USERNAME) as the RSS Feed URL, and set the frequency rate. via download squad

Great idea. The only draw back I can think of is that Pownce doesn’t seem to have a character limit and Twitter does. Still, this is a pretty cool idea. The next mashup should do Twitter + Jaiku + Pownce. Maybe all these should just use Jabbr or something like that.

via Nicki!

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Pownce, Jaiku